A Million Year Girl

A Millon Year Girl
Studio album by Max Sharam
Released 14 June, 1995
Genre Pop
Length 46:54
Label Discovery/Warner Music
Producer Daniel Denholm
Singles from A Million Year Girl
  1. "Coma"
    Released: December, 1994
  2. "Be Firm"
    Released: June 1995
  3. "Lay Down"
    Released: November 1995
  4. "Is It OK if I Call You Mine?"
    Released: February 1996
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A Million Year Girl is the debut album by Australian singer Max Sharam.

Sharam issued her debut EP Coma in December 1994 (produced by Daniel Denholm and Nick Mainsbridge) with the song peaking at #14 on the Australian singles chart during February 1995.[1] and was voted the eighth most popular song in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 1994.[2] Her debut album A Million Year Girl was released in June 1995. The album went platinum and reached #9 in the Australian album charts.[3] It was nominated for eight ARIA Awards (although she only won 'Best Cover Artwork').[4] and produced a further two Top 40 singles, "Be Firm" (#25 in June 1995) and "Lay Down" (a cover of the Melanie Safka song, which reached #36 in November 1995). Her fourth single, "Is It OK if I Call You Mine?" released in February 1996, was not as successful and failed to chart.

Track listing

A Million Year Girl
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Be Firm"  Max Sharam, Daniel Denholm, James D'Arcy[5] 3:47
2. "Coma"  Max Sharam[5] 3:43
3. "Purple Flower"  Max Sharam[5] 4:19
4. "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"  Melanie Safka[5] 4:01
5. "Is it Okay if I Call You Mine?"  Paul McCrane[5] 2:59
6. "A Toast To ..."  Max Sharam[5] 0:18
7. "Jezu's Jewellery" (Backing vocals by Wendy Matthews)Max Sharam[5] 4:00
8. "Hunting Ground"  Max Sharam, Daniel Denholm [5] 4:29
9. "Can I Catch Fire?"  Max Sharam[5] 3:57
10. "Alice"  Max Sharam, Stevie Nicks, Hine[5] 4:34
11. "Learning to Let Go"  Max Sharam[5] 2:51
12. "Raining Angels"  Sharam, Giancarlo De Matteis[5] 4:11
13. "Orchestra au Naturel"  Sharam, John D'Arcy[5] 3:45
Total length:
 46:54

Charts

Year Chart Title Peak
position
1995 Australian Album Chart A Million Year Girl 9[3]

Personnel

  • Tony Allayialis – vocals
  • Wendy Berge – viola
  • Aud Bill – double bass
  • Tim Brewer – piano
  • Amanda Brown – mandolin, violin
  • Lucie Miller – celli viola
  • Ian Cooper – violin
  • Rebecca Daniel – violin
  • Daniel Denholm – bass, guitar, piano, guitar (bass), guitar (electric), French horn, keyboards
  • Phillip Hartl – violin
  • Alex Hewetson – bass
  • Kirsty Hilton – violin
  • Nick Mainsbridge – keyboards
  • Wendy Matthews – vocals
  • Sofie Michalitsianos – vocals
  • Connie Mitchell – vocals
  • Anthony "Jake" Morgan – cello
  • Ben Nightingale – guitar (electric)
  • Peter Northcoate – guitar (electric)
  • Mark Punch – guitar (acoustic)
  • Christian Pyle – guitar (acoustic)
  • Terepai Richmond – drums
  • Max Sharam – vocals
  • Jenny Taylor – violin
  • Ben Whatmore – guitar (electric)

Credits

  • Tom Blaxland – Assistant Engineer
  • Brent Clark – Mixing
  • Virginia Commerford – Mixing
  • Daniel Denholm – Programming, Producer, String Arrangements
  • Nick Mainsbridge – Engineer, Drum Programming, Mixing, Assistant Producer
  • Phil Munro – Mixing Assistant
  • David Nicholas – Mixing
  • Dominic O'Brien – Design

References

  1. ↑ "Max Sharam - Coma (song)". Australian-Charts.com. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  2. ↑ "Hottest 100 - 1994". Triple J. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Max Sharam - A Million Year Girl (album)". Australian charts portal. Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  4. ↑ "ARIA Awards - Max Sharam". ARIA. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 5.12 "Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) search engine". APRA. Retrieved 12 July 2010. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. BE FIRM